MAHEU: I PLAYED A ROLE IN CIA KILL-CASTRO PLOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510064-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: July 31, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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day that he taken part in a Central Inte,ug?ence Agency
plot to poison Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. But, he said.
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By JOSEPH VOLT ..
Washington, July 30 (News Bureau) -Robert l'laheu, C y Ol s!} SS .4
p, former top aide to Howard Hughes, declared- publicly to- r,j
cruited by the CIA -_to publicly
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e agency .
I reveal -his role in t
o a go sitna
plan was always subject.
Helmx,, ,, dor to Iran..
Drinan, who introduced the
.first .impeachment resolution
against President Nixon, said,
the CIA Is still protected from
prosecution by an 'incredible"-
.hands-off deal with :.the Justice
Department.', , -'F
"i have come to the conclu-
.slon," he_ said, "that the only
certain remedy available to Con-
gress and the country. to find
out about all of -the abuses -of
the CIA and to remove from of-- i
five one,of- the perpetrators of
these abuses is to initiate an.im
peachnrent inquiry into the con-,
.duct of Richard Helms. -
Domestic Spying
'Drinan said that the activities
Helms should be questioned
about included domestic surveil-
lance the CIA, role in the
overthrow of the Allende
government in Chile, alleged in-
volvement in Watergate matters.
and in the trual of Daniel Ells
berg, and possible perjuri' before
a congressional committee. .
Most ' of the' alleged CL 'k
abuses now under investigation
by Congress tool - place while
Yielm's was CIA director from
1966 to 1973. Drina?-n said that
Helms' current post as rnbassa-
dor to Iran makes him a civil
Approved FOicRe4ea a 20055Qt/1it eCt
By FRANK VAN RIPER
.Washington; July .30.'(NewMin Bu-
reau) ,Rep.. Robert F. an
(D-Mass.) -introduced a resolu-
tion today call- -
ing _ for the ha-
peachment --- of :
former CIA'.
Director . Rich-
ard M. Helms,
so that .Con-
gress could
compel te.sti-
nrony from him
about "all of
the abuses of
the, CIA."
. . U-4
Helms- Is the
Maheu, a former agent -rat. the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,'
is the first of the plotters re-
the _'life- 'of Castro =='. attempts
that.reporiedly_extended through "q
most of. the f 960s.` He made his
disclosures at a press conference
following.:twp- daus of:'his_closed-.
door testimony before the Senate. Intelligence Committee' which is,
investigating =the CIA .and other
intelligence bodies.'.
McGovern Delivers Summary
At the same time,'. Sen: George
McGovern (D-S.D.) handed over-:
to the Senate - committee a sum-
mary i
of evidence compiled by
Castro pruporting -to : outline 14
CIA-inspired plots on the . lives i
of Castro and other. Cuban lead-
ers. 'McGovern, who visited Cuba
in* May and asked Castro to put -
togetherthe list of alleged
assassination - attempts, said he
hadno way to verify the Cuban
premier's allegations.
.In handing over the summary
to, the 'Intelligence Committee's
staff ;:director, ti~'illiam Miller,
McGovern said that 'much of it
was ' based on confessions, 'and-1
prisinpe :those- people-,are- still in
prison"'
"I do not know ifs they were.
tortured the senator
went on.
Irfaheu, nosy a_ Las Vegas busi--
nessman,, said at his -Bross =-con
fereice' -:: that he Aiad worlked
several years fo3
- tiie - Cl l` on . a
.
,, ~retain.er of 5500 a`nionth--During
the- 1950s, :he _said, he provided
"cover" -. for some QIA -.agents-
working overseas bar listing: them
as-'employes of his - pub]
,_rela,-
tions concern. W]iile'ywvorking-for'
Hughes. iii 1960, be-. .id;.',he lugs
ordered= by 'the' CIA to:--take, part>,
in a plan to kill Castrba:
Mahen,'said- that ;h s project-officer, whom lie "identi
fied as ? James -O'Connell, _ had-}
asked him to recruit the mobster
John Rosselli in- a plot to' poison'.
Castro, Maher said that Rosselli
had at first been-"reluctant" to
engage in the plot, but that both
Rosselli . and an associate, . Sam
Giancana, a major underworld
Constitution to the. imp(- _-6hi)tent ', coip Iiicccj that :to..do .so' "%vo ill'
process. + he ^n akin it 'cantributidn to na-
tinnal security," ?
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